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Post Election, the Interest is GREAT in the scandal at 100 Main St, Police Department
Some public interest factors are properly taken into consideration and accorded great weight. For example, the courts have found the public interest in disclosure to be strong when requested information would inform the public about proven violations of public trust. See, e.g., Columbia Packing Co., Inc. v. Department of Agriculture, 563 F.2d 495, 499 (1st Cir. 1977) (federal employees found guilty of accepting bribes); Congressional News Syndicate v. Department of Justice, 438 F. Supp, 538, 544 (D.D.C. 1977) (misconduct by White House staffers). As one court has observed, there is an "obvious public interest in a full and thorough airing of . . . serious abuses that did in fact occur, in the hope that such abuses will not occur in the future." Tax Reform Research Group v. IRS, 419 F. Supp. 415, 418 (D.D.C. 1976).
Apart from proven government wrongdoing, the courts have recognized a variety of other public interest factors entitled to heavy, often dispositive, weight. See, e.g., Ferri v. Bell, 645 F.2d 1213, 1218 (3d Cir. 1981), vacated & reinstated in part on rehearing, 671 F.2d 769 (3d Cir. 1982) (attempt to expose alleged deal between prosecutor and witness found to be in public interest); Getman v. NLRB, 450 F.2d 670, 675-76 (D.C. Cir. 1971) (public interest need for study of union elections held sufficient to warrant release of names and addresses of employee voters); Disabled Officers Ass'n v. Rumsfeld, 428 F. Supp. 454, 458 (D.D.C. 1977) (nonprofit organization serving needs of disabled Air Force personnel held entitled to data on such personnel).
Dispositive: dealing with the settling of international conflicts by an agreed disposition of disputed territories.
"a peace settlement in the nature of a dispositive treaty"
Mrs. Burke's Truancy at the Mayor's Office and the Police Scandal, great public interest in both.
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